To limit the use of predispute forced arbitration clauses in contracts for Financial Services and products. I strongly oppose the Congressional Review Act resolution to dismantle this vital Consumer Protection. Forced arbitration clauses force individuals to sign away their right to go to court as a condition of buying a product or service, and they allow Corporate America to take advantage of a shadow Justice System that is inherently biased toward the corporation, offers no meaningful appeals process. To put it bluntly, these clauses serve one purpose and one purpose alone. To help make sure the giant corporations still come out on top if they have wronged consumers. Thankfully weve started to make some progress in addressing forced arbitration. Five years ago the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau began an intensive study of forced arbitration clauses in consumer Financial Services contracts for things like credit cards, savings accounts and private student loans. The study confir
Situation even worse. And no apology. I have jokes, he has the launch codes. So Steven Colbert addresses the controversy surrounding his vulgar rant about the president. I would change a few words that were cruder than they needed to be. Will that be enough to satisfy his critic . Today thursday, may 4th, 2017. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Its a thursday morning. Matt is on assignment. Craig is here. Happy for Prince Philip. A flury activity a few hours ago. A lot of people were concerned. You thought perhaps harry decideding to tie the knot. We have to wait for that announcement. Lets start with this showdown on capitol hill. A vote happening today on the republicans long Promise Health care overhaul than comes less than two months after a similar vote was scrapped over fears it wouldnt pass. But now the House Majority leader says things are different, they have the votes. We have in depth coverage this this morning. Well start with kristen walker. Reporter good morning.
Worth tens how fast thousands of dollars in exchange for favors. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. The jury has made up of ten women and two men and seated yesterday. Jeff cole was in the courtroom today. Joins us live outside federal court in center city. Jeff . Reporter lucy, this is a historic trial, right . Youve got a sitting da arc sitting da whos being tried for corruption bite federal government. The government says the District Attorney williams accepted bribes and gifts. Defrauded the government his moms nursing home to support his sometime lavish lifestyle. In testimony this afternoon, prosecutors pressed on their claim that he misused about 20 grand supposed to go to his moms care in the st. Francis nursing home its a nonprofit. A nursing home collections person told the jury williams didnt seem to care about. Didnt seem to want to pay. Williams attorney argued it wasnt made clear to him what his financial obligations were. We pressed williams attorney for answers
Issued sometime this evening for the heart of the delaware valley, strong winds is the major concern there but you can take a look at those dewpoints, that moisture rich air dark greens in the midatlantic with dewpoints in the lower and middle 70s. That just means theres a lot of water molecules sitting in the atmosphere so when a storm hits it literally floods that rain out of the atmosphere. So, scattered storms and downpours here this evening, right through saturday morning. Some areas could see up to 3inches and if that happens, there could be some localized quick flash flooding with the heaviest steadiest of that rain with the front passing through between 4 oclock and 8 oclock tomorrow morning and when i come back well talk about a sevenday which features better news here for most of the weekend sharrie. We have a little bit of a change that youre going to like that in accuweather forecast. Ill take your word for it. Adam thank you. Speaking of the time line adam just mentioned b
The bench mark. It becomes humid. 70 is oppressive. You get higher than 70 it feels really, really lousy, now we have dewpoints in the low 60s. They will continue to lower, it will feel good later on. Satellite and radar a little bit of cloud cover kind of sneaking in from the southwest. Generally speaking well go mostly sunny, a mixture of sun and clouds, very pleasant overall high of 80 degrees. Ill focus on the heat wave when i come back in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Thank you. One day after violent thunderstorms went through the tristate area, several people are facing the damage thats left behind. The storms brought down trees and power lines and damaged homes and cars in new castle delaware, surveillance cameras captured this wild video of the storm blowing through. The strong winds ripped a part the fence along the 2000 block of new castle avenue. The wood and metal fence was pulled out of the ground and pieces of it ended up in the overhead lines. Nextdoor a r